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We examine ill-health retirement of police officers in England and Wales between 2002-3 and 2009-10. Differences in ill-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pensions plans- in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill-health retirement from central government to local police authorities- impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially among forces with above-average rates of retirement. We find that residual differences in post-2006 ill-health retirement rates across forces are related to their differential capacities to raise revenue from local property taxes. We quantify the impact of these reforms on overal pension plan liabilities.
Authors
Research Associate University of Sussex
Richard is an IFS Research Associate, a Part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor of Economics at UCL.
Rowena Crawford
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2013.1306
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
Suggested citation
Crawford, R and Disney, R. (2013). Reform of ill-health retirement of police in England and Wales: impact on pension liabilities and the role of local finance. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/reform-ill-health-retirement-police-england-and-wales-impact-pension-liabilities-and (accessed: 26 April 2024).
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